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Tourism In Japan Plagued By The Coronavirus OutbreakNARA, JAPAN - MARCH 12: A sika deer crosses a road on March 12, 2020 in Nara, Japan. Like a number of tourist hotspots around the country, Nara, a popular ancient city where free-roaming deer are an attraction for tourists, has seen a decline in visitor numbers in recent weeks amid concern over the spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19). Some groups of deer have begun roaming in the city's residential area due to shortage of food partially fed from tourists according to media reports. (Photo by Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images)

LE

That's nothing new, where I used to live in east london, adjacent to a section of Epping forest called wanstead flats, cows and the occasional horse regularly wandered into the adjacent streets, and it was not unusual to find them in front gardens, and relatives living in Woodford green, even further north east, got deer in the streets. The same around Richmond park.

The stopped clock of The Belfast Telegraph seems to indicate the
time
Of the explosion - or was that last week's? Difficult to keep
track:
Everything's a bit askew, like the twisted pickets of the
security gate, the wreaths,
That approximate the spot where I'm told the night patrol
went through.

The stopped clock of The Belfast Telegraph seems to indicate the
time
Of the explosion - or was that last week's? Difficult to keep
track:
Everything's a bit askew, like the twisted pickets of the
security gate, the wreaths,
That approximate the spot where I'm told the night patrol
went through.

LE

OK, in your hour of exercise, and at around 0400hrs, take the contents of your bedroom and carry it to a point halfway between the RMAS back gate and Lower Star Post. Lay it out properly and await inspection. When nobody turns up after an hour pack it up and return to the Academy in time to be beasted further.

Be prepared to be told you have utterly, utterly failed on your return and that until you kill your mother for a place on SMC you are totally worthless.

A lesson I both loved and hated in retrospect - but take it as a life lesson that cannot be given today.

Thankfully.

The stopped clock of The Belfast Telegraph seems to indicate the
time
Of the explosion - or was that last week's? Difficult to keep
track:
Everything's a bit askew, like the twisted pickets of the
security gate, the wreaths,
That approximate the spot where I'm told the night patrol
went through.

MIA

There was a documentary programme which portrayed a scenario in which mankind had disappeared overnight. The reason why was unexplained- it was an irrelevance- it then charted the gradual decay and disappearance of our infrastructure over 25,000 years.
IIRC the last scene was of a skeletal reinforced concrete tower block, overgrown and inhabited by thousands of cats.

MIA

There was a documentary programme which portrayed a scenario in which mankind had disappeared overnight. The reason why was unexplained- it was an irrelevance- it then charted the gradual decay and disappearance of our infrastructure over 25,000 years.
IIRC the last scene was of a skeletal reinforced concrete tower block, overgrown and inhabited by thousands of cats.

Old-Salt

40 commando at Norton manor used to have a tame red deer in the woods, a great big fat bugger that would come up a give you a shove with its head demanding food, it disappeared after a while, probably shagged to death and eaten by a bootie